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THE ZOOLOGIST. 



He was educated at Bombay and Poona. Passing the B.A. andM.A. 

 examinations in Bombay University at the head of the list, he 

 won the Homejee Cursetjee prize (poem) in 1880, and was Latin 

 reader in the Deccan College from 1880 to 1886. Mr. Aitken then 

 entered the Customs and Salt Department of the Civil Service, of 

 which he rose to be head. He retired two years ago and settled in 

 Edinburgh. Mr. Aitken wrote, under the nom de plume of "Eha," a 

 number of books on Indian life and natural history, notably ' Tribes 

 on my Frontier,' 1 Behind the Bungalow,' 1 Common Birds of Bombay,' 

 and 'A Naturalist on the Prowl.' He was also the author of 'Five 

 Windows of the Soul.' 



Mr. Aitken, who was ill only two months, leaves a widow, two 

 sons, and three daughters. 



The Eev. H. Milnes, M.A. 



Mr. H. Milnes, who was born seventy-seven years ago and died 

 at Cheltenham on March 10th last, was a keen collector of British 

 Mollusca, more especially the Land and Freshwater Shells ; he also 

 possessed a small collection of Exotics besides. Before coming to 

 Cheltenham, where he had resided for several years, he was vicar of 

 Winster, in Derbyshire, where he assiduously collected the Mol- 

 lusca of that county, and as a result published, in 1893, a " List of 

 the Land and Freshwater Shells of Derbyshire" in the 'Journal of 

 Conchology,' to which periodical he was a casual contributor. But, 

 though he published very little, he was a keen observer, of which the 

 voluminous note-books which he continuously compiled constitute 

 sufficient evidence. These, together with his collections, arranged in 

 half a dozen small cabinets, have been presented to the Cheltenham 

 Boys' College. As this institution is considerably overcrowded, 

 and already in possession of a good representative Collection of 

 Shells, and is besides liable to be closed to the public at any time, it 

 is much to be regretted that the deceased did not bequeath the 

 collection to the Town Museum in Clarence Street, which was 

 only opened in the autumn of 1907, and is at present practically 

 starving through want of support in the shape of donations. Mr. 

 Jones, the Curator, informs me that he did approach Mr. Milnes 

 some months before his decease with this object in view, but with- 

 out success. This, I am given to understand, was chiefly in con- 

 sequence of the chagrin which he manifested at the conspicuous 

 absence of sympathy displayed towards Conchology, in this osten- 



